Anti-Communist liberals in the labor movement and the Democratic Party funded social-democratic parties in Western Europe as alternatives to Communism; politicians and intellectuals organized themselves in associations like Americans for Democratic Action and around magazines like Encounter to fight the war of ideas.
So magazines like Encounter, they were created in Paris, they were created in Italy, they were created all over Europe; and then they spread to the Nordic countries, they spread to the Third World.
"I like encounters; I like randomness and physicality," he said over lunch at a steakhouse in Barstow, where he briefly considered inviting the waitress to perform.
I ask him if he remembers the Stardust Memories-like encounter with the Hadassah ladies.
When she sighs with pleasure, we feel relieved -- and then we squirm, unsettled by the creepy, rape-like encounter.
After they first couple – a swift, animal-like encounter – Mellors decorously moves her skirt back in place across her thigh as if protecting her ladyship's modesty.
And, to make his point, Edgar stages a dream-like encounter between Andrewes and Tyndale that gets to the heart of the drama.
As for the side-splittingly Wurzel-like encounter with Bob Dylan reported in Q, Reg remembers it rather differently: "He was over here to do his film, Hearts Of Fire, and I had a little bit part, just walk-on, walk-off, I suppose you would call it.
LAX is nice at night, but it is only its odds and ends like all those colored columns and the spaceship-like Encounter restaurant that make you think of adventure.
Then there's the Merlin-like encounter with a Columbia prof at Whole Foods, something about philosophy... Curiously, although it's admitted that Webb was unceremoniously laid off by Goldman, by the end of the article, it's made to seem as if Webb has quit.
While your emotional mind might be recalling unpleasant memories of the two of you together once, use your rational mind to push down the unpleasantness and to treat this as a professional, business-like encounter.
